Abundantly illustrated with color photos, archaeological drawings, and site maps, this substantive catalog from the Tenth International Conference of the Nubian Society, held in September 2002 in ...(Read More)

Illustrated with archaeological drawings, photos, and color reproductions of paintings, tapestries, and mosaics, this book looks at how the cultivation of gardens played an integral role in the ...(Read More)

Although it has commonly been assumed that the ancient Egyptians were a civilization of successful farmers settled on the shores of the Nile, Toby Wilkinson—a specialist on Egyptian rock art—claims ...(Read More)

A practical spotter's guide to counterfeits in Italian coins, banknotes, and electronic money, this large slipcased volume is rather more valuable to most of us as a visual chronicle of some of the ...(Read More)

Visiting major archaeological sites in Israel and the Holy Land, this intriguing visual history allows you to compare today's landscapes and ruins with reconstructions of the grand edifices that ...(Read More)

This oversized album reproduces the remarkable plates from Ippolito Rosellini's The Monuments of Egypt and Nubia, produced after his 1829 expedition with Rosetta Stone decipherer Jean-François ...(Read More)

The senior curator of Greek and Roman antiquities in the British Museum, Ian Jenkins here surveys the Museum's Parthenon sculptures as prime examples of classical Greek art, as well as how they have ...(Read More)

A tale of buried treasure, unrepentant looting, international intrigue, and dedicated scholarship, as well as of stunning discoveries like the tomb of Tutankhamun, this abundantly illustrated ...(Read More)

Twelve centuries ago, a merchant ship—an Arab dhow—foundered on a reef off the coast of Belitung in the Java Sea. On board were lead ingots, bronze mirrors, spice jars, intricately worked vessels of ...(Read More)

From the southernmost tip of Cornwall to the far-flung Scottish isles, from world-famous sites like Stonehenge and Newgrange to those barely known in Fernworthy and Bleasdale, a remarkable variety of ...(Read More)